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Kidnapped; Being Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Stevenson, Robert Louis

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Hurst & Company:

Seller ID: 009581

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Green cloth on boards with pastedown female portrait. Possibly the best known of the author's works. Previous owner's name, but no other writing or damage. Orphan, David, sets off to deliver a letter to his uncle, who is paranoid and anti-social. David discovers that his father was older than his uncle, which allows for David to receive an inheritance. Uncle Ebenezer arranges with a ship's captain to kidnap David and sell him into slavery. David escapes, but becomes entangled in political battles and serious illness. Eventually, he is able to return home and claim his inheritance. Caref...
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Dracula

By: Stoker, Bram

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday and Company, Inc.:

Seller ID: 013346

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good Plus

Original black cloth over boards with red lettering on spine. Red and black graphic design on white dustjacket. Dustjacket is age-darkened, and somewhat worn at the top and bottom of spine. Small 1/8" piece of jacket missing at bottom of spine. Pages tanned. No marks or other damage. Undated, but after 1950. 354 pp. including Note.
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The Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D., With Copious Notes and Additions, and A Memoir of the Author By Thomas Roscoe, Vol. VI Only

By: Swift, Jonathan (D.D.)

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: New York, P. O'Shea: 1865

Seller ID: 003203

Binding: Original Cloth

Condition: Very Good Minus

Original dark green textured cloth over boards. Ex-library with none of the usual markings except a small red ink stamp on bottom of text block reading "SJRL-WD" (Saint John Regional Library - Withdrawn). One-inch break between front cover and top of hinge. Previous owner's name and purchase details on front free endpaper. Two small water stains on edge of textblock not affecting text. Sir Walter Scott wrote a tribute to Swift on the title page: "No author in the British language has enjoyed the extensive popularity of the celebrated Dean of St. Patrick's. The vivid and origi...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Writings of T. Noon Talfourd; Bound with Critical and Miscellaneous Essays of James Stephen in One Volume(In One volume)

By: Talfourd, T. Noon

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., D. Appleton and Co.: 1869

Seller ID: 002405

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Original dark green cloth with bright spine lettering on boards. Scarce volume of Victorian reviews and essays. Previous owners' names and one leaf-pressing stain, otherwise fine. Talfourd, 176 pp. Stephen, 158 pp.
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Masterpieces

By: Thackeray, W. M.

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia, The Rodgers Company:

Seller ID: 003634

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fair

Original brown leather corner tips and backing on marbled boards. Approx. half of backstrip missing, with Scotch tape on balance.. 19 chapters, beginning with Shows How the Royal Family Sat Down to Breakfast, and ending with Ballads. Previous owner's name. Patterned endpapers. 253 pp.
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The Newcomes

By: Thackeray, W. M.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Henry Frowde, Oxford U. Press:

Seller ID: 007038

Binding: Full Leather on Flexible Board

Condition: Good

Original red leather on flexible boards. Leather separated from boards on both covers, so I glued them. Interior clean and sound. 1014 pp.
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Men's Wives/The Book of Snobs

By: Thackeray, William Makepeace

Price: $150.00 USD

Publisher: N.Y., D. Appleton and Co.: 1870

Seller ID: 002275

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Original royal blue blind-stamped cloth on boards. Both titles and author in gilt on spine only. A rare issue, with no others found. Men's Wives (274 pp.) is dated 1868, while The Book of Snobs (278 pp.) is dated 1870. Generally grubby and a little dampstained, but not marked except with previous owner's small, stylish name stamp, "Solomon Davis". The Book of Snobs is complete, containing the "political" chapters which were sometimes omitted. Several pages of ads complete the volume.
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Day-Dreams of a Schoolmaster

By: Thompson, D'Arcy W.

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1912

Seller ID: 004518

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth with gold decoration and titles on boards. An arresting revision of the original volume. The present author has omitted Chapters XII to XV on the ground that they are "pedagogical", and thus (apparently) of little interest to most prospective readers. His own first impression, however, was that "I was on the border of a delectable country." Inscription. 254 pp.
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Anna Karenina (Vols. I-III)/Childhood, Boyhood, Youth (Two Volume Set)

By: Tolstoi, Lyof N. (Tolstoy)

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: New York, Thomas Y. Crowell & Company: 1899

Seller ID: 013298

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Tan cloth on boards with black trim on spine. Top edges gilt. Rough-cut pages. Both volumes are spotted on the spines. The second volume has a dampstain on the spine (not affecting pages), and a 1 1/2" abrasion to the cloth on the back. This set is heavy, and will require extra postage. 349 pp./379 pp.
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War and Peace

By: Tolstoy, Leo

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Philadelphia and Toronto, John C. Winston Company: 1949

Seller ID: 013302

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Red cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Hand-soiling and small abrasion on front cover. Spotting on rear cover. Bottom corner of textblock is dusty. Top corner of rear cover is slightly worn. Minor foxing inside rear cover. This edition was edited by Somerset Maugham and translated by Princess Alexandra Kropotkin. Black and white illustrations with two-page colour illustration of "The Battle of Borodino 1812" in the middle of the book. We also have Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" in a matching binding listed separately. 742 pp.
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The Way We Live Now

By: Trollope, Anthony

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Peterborough, ON, Broadview Press: 2005

Seller ID: 008507

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: As New

Original photo cover trade paperback. Bought new from university bookstore. A reprint of the 1875 work. 408 pp.
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Fathers and Children

By: Turgenieff, Ivan (Ivan Turgenev)

Price: $30.00 USD

Publisher: London, J.M. Dent & Co.: 1905

Seller ID: 013282

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Olive cloth on boards with gilt lettering and decoration. Dampstain on back cover and affecting last eight leaves. Previous owner's lovely bookplate in the front. Remains of paper stuck to second front free endpaper. Foxing inside front and back covers. This is Volume VI of the Novels and Stories of Ivan Turgenieff, and was translated from Russian by Isabel F. Hapgood. 352 pp.
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My First Library; A Selection of Forty-Five Standard Books Described and Exemplified

By: Turnbull, E. Lucia

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Thomas Nelson and Sons, Ltd.: 1932

Seller ID: 010838

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Blue cloth on boards. Previous owner's initials. No damage. The Teaching of English Series, No. 157. Descriptions of 45 popular titles from English literature, giving choice selections with a view to answering the question, "What is this book about ?" 298 pp. plus catalog.
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Necessary Secrets; The Journals of Elizabeth Smart

By: Van Wart, Alice (Ed.)

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Toronto, Deneau: 1986

Seller ID: 012620

ISBN: 0-88879-122-4

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Imagine your first novel being banned by your mother and Mackenzie King (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept). This book centers on Smart's journal writing of the 30's and 40's. Laid in is a lengthy news clipping. 285 pp.
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Five Weeks in a Balloon

By: Verne, Jules

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: London, Glasgow, Manchester, and New York, George Routledge and Sons:

Seller ID: 013276

Binding: Decorative Cloth

Condition: Good

Blue green hardcover with red and yellow lilies on the front with black lettering and decoration. Minor corner wear. Dampstain at top of rear cover. Pencil scribbles inside front cover and on rear free endpaper. Hinges starting. Small holes at bottoms of pages from 235 on (not affecting text). Gift inscription dated 1891. Previous owner's stamps. Part of Routledge's "Every Boy's Library". This adventure novel about African exploration was an instant hit when it was published, and allowed Verne to become financially independent. 249 pp. plus six pages of ads.
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Complete Works of Voltaire; 50-1760-1

By: Voltaire

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Voltaire Foundation; Taylor Institution: 1986

Seller ID: 010709

ISBN: 0-7294-0334-3

Binding: Card Covers

Condition: Very Good

White (blank) softcover. Part of the Complete Works. French and English. 542 pp. Heavy book will need extra postage.
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The Ring of the Niblung; II, Siegfried and the Twilight of the Gods

By: Wagner, Richard

Price: $450.00 USD

Publisher: London/New York, William Heinemann/Doubleday Page: 1911

Seller ID: 004186

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original tan cloth elaborately decorated and lettered in gold on boards. Translated into English by Margaret Armour. Formerly in a private school library, but card and date due slip left in to show that it was never circulated (These are attached inside the rear board, so easily removed). Six small library stamps on inside covers/endpapers, and a few at random throughout, not affecting either text or illustrations. ALL drawings present, flat, and protected by tissue guard. Front hinge is lightly cracked at title page, but sound and secure. Corners lightly bumped. A diamond rescued from th...
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Harmer John; An Unworldly Story

By: Walpole, Hugh

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: London, Macmillan & Co., Ltd.: 1934

Seller ID: 005240

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus to Very Good

Original maroon cloth on blindstamped boards. Gold spine titles. A romantic novel set in Polchester, which town is the protagonist of the story, in the early Twentieth Century. Harmer John seems too good to be true. Book is heavily cocked. Previous owner's name. 485 pp.
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The Compleat Angler

By: Walton, Izaac

Price: $1,000.00 USD

Publisher: London, George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd.: 1931

Seller ID: 013066

Binding: Publisher's Vellum

Condition: Very Good Minus

Cream publisher's vellum with gilt titles and small gilt fish on somewhat grubby spine. No slipcase. Top edges gilt. Rough-cut edges, with several uncut leaves. #92 of a limited edition of 775 copies, signed by the artist. 12 lovely colour plates with captioned tissue guards. Introduction by Henry Williamson. A discussion among a fisherman, a hunter, and a falconer proceeds to the hunter's being invited for a fishing trip, with the rest of the work devoted to an essay on fishing. I call it Literature. Some call it Philosophy. First published in 1653. 224 pp. This book is on consign...
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A Room Of One's Own

By: Woolf, Virginia

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: London, Leonard/Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press: 1929

Seller ID: 012278

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good Plus

Light brown cloth on boards. McMaster University library copy donated by Cyrus Eaton (library bookplate dated November, 1930 ). Gutter crack Pp. 160-161 which I would glue if it were mine. Some light pencil notations in margins. Odor-free. 172 pp.
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Category: Literature